All Meat articles – Page 238
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Market watch: Retail meat prices week ending May 6 2000
Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 612 -36 436 - 716 Rump 892 -44 724 - ...
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Pigmeat: OECD Agricultural Outlook
Prices predicted to remain soft Pork buyers worried by the rising market might find consolation in the latest Agricultural Outlook published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. The OECD staff, who have a good...
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Obituary: Arthur Skelhorn
Arthur Skelhorn, MBE, for many years a central figure in the independent sector, and a regular contributor to The Grocer on bacon matters, has died in a Manchester nursing home aged 91. Past president on several occasions of the Northern Council of...
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Bacon: Room for developments
There is a lot of speculation about likely developments at Malton Bacon Factory, which has a planning application for a 4,000 sq m extension. After 12 years as md, Max Hilliard has been promoted to chief executive (see story on page 80), while Neil...
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The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland
Beef producers: Commitment to mainland surprisingly successful The beef industry might seem to still be in deep crisis but resurgence of sales to the British multiples has been nothing short of spectacular from a supply resource now world class ...
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BSE: Call for French beef ban slated
Conservative Party demands for a ban on imports of French beef and beef products following a surge in the number of BSE cases in France have been rejected by MAFF, the FDF and the NFU. Agriculture minister Nick Brown was urged by his shadow, Tim...
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MLC cattle market outlook Imports set to decline this year
Forecast may prove useful in defusing protests Imports of beef are likely to decline slightly this year, after a sharp increase in 1999, according to the latest edition of the MLC's quarterly Cattle Market Outlook. This published forecast may...
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MLC PIGS MARKET OUTLOOK Squeeze tighter than expected
Pork production likely to fall again next year Contraction of UK pigmeat production is turning into a severe structural adjustment rather than merely an unusually painful cyclical output swing as seemed likely just a few months ago. "Despite the...
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OPINION: The absurd and the illegal
The news that exports of French agricultural products to Britain rose last year despite the strength of public opinion against France's refusal to lift the UK beef exports ban will probably provoke wide Gallic smiles down the Champs Elysées....
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Compulsory beef labels set to arrive in autumn
EU agriculture ministers have voted to introduce compulsory labelling for beef from September 1 2000 two years ahead of the original date. MAFF minister of state Joyce Quin welcomed the decision but she said the UK already has a beef monitoring...